Mind

Are you someone who would love to meditate but is just not able to make the time for it? Finding the time to meditate is holding you back from beginning the practice? While practiced regularly meditation has its benefits, you can also boost your mindfulness with brief breaks of a few minutes or less.

During your college years you may feel more pressure than you thought was possible. All that stress can be harmful to your physical and mental health, not to mention your grades. These strategies can help to protect your mental health throughout your college years.

Behavioral disorders, on the other hand, are persistent and ongoing from adolescence to adulthood. Here are five positive ways a parent or teacher can provide guidance and positive reinforcement for serious behaviors.

The turmoil of teenage life is full of anxiety-driven moments and decisions. Teenagers can become stressed out over issues from an exam in school to social anxiety. When the turmoil of anxiety becomes a constant in a teen’s day-to-day life, the teen should receive help as soon as possible.

What is happiness? What does it mean to be truly happy? Humans always have been searching for the answers to these questions. Of course,there is no single factor that determines human happiness. There are many causes that can influence how we feel on a day-to-day basis. Daily happiness can be affected by something as little as getting a good night sleep. If you want to find out what some of the reasons a person can be happy take a look at this happiness checklist.

It seems like there is every day a new study is coming out showing the benefits of meditation. For decades the scientists have been showing that there are numerous benefits of simply sitting quietly and concentrating on your breath.

Well there is more good news. A new study published this month and reported in the New York Times that shows that practice of meditation, no matter whether we are expert meditators or novice practitioners, produces measurable changes in two key ways:

1. More communication between two brain regions involved in self-control and focus.

2. Lower levels of a stress-linked substance called IL-6 that's been linked with inflammation and can sometimes be used as an early indicator of later health problems.

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Furthermore, if that's wasn't enough to convince you that you should meditate, there are multiple studies suggest that meditation can also help reduce depression and anxiety and mindfulness meditation in particular might help people deal with psychological stress and help them relate to others.

If you want to keep yourself looking and feeling young, there are a few major habits that you may need to leave behind and a couple that you should probably adopt ASAP. After all, we only live once! Here are three habits that age you as well as two other habits that will keep your youthfulness sparkling for years to come